Nation & World

Benet Magnuson is a native Kansan and the executive director of Kansas Appleseed. His career has been dedicated to nonprofit advocacy on behalf of impoverished and excluded communities.

Izzy Goodchild-Michelman is a South Carolina native who spent six weeks working for Hub City Urban Farm in Spartanburg, S.C., before she started at Harvard. She helped write grants and revamped the educational Seed to Table curriculum that’s used with elementary and middle school students.

Harvard Kennedy School researchers release report urging Congress to close its growing tech-knowledge gap.

Symposium celebrates career of William Julius Wilson.

Samantha Power says the desire to make positive change springs from understanding our connections as people.

An excerpt from “The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir” by Samantha Power.

Harvard biologist and longtime Amazon rainforest researcher Brian Farrell discusses how the forest fires raging in Brazil are threatening the planet’s climate, and how to stop them.

An interview with HGSE professor Jal Mehta about the book “In Search of Deeper Learning” he co-authored with Sarah Fine, Ed.M. ’13, Ed.D. ’17. The book examines the American high school and where students are experiencing deeper learning, which involves engagement, joy, and a sense of community.

In the wake of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the Gazette spoke with David Hemenway, professor of health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and author of the 2006 book “Private Guns, Public Health.” Hemenway has spent much of his career studying gun violence.

A collaboration between Harvard’s Opportunity Insights and public housing agencies in Washington state found that giving support and advice about housing options to families with housing choice vouchers led to significantly more of them moving to areas where children have higher recorded rates of upward mobility.

Harvard archaeology Professor Matthew Liebmann sat down with the Gazette to talk about his research, how his field has reckoned with the past, and how both influence his teaching.

Rachel Louise Snyder spoke with Diane Rosenfeld, a lecturer and director of the Gender Violence Program at Harvard Law School, about her book “No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Abuse Can Kill Us.”

Jonathan M. Hansen’s biography of Fidel Castro’s early years aims to “get past the demonization and celebration and recover the complex person in the middle.”

An unusual find during a Harvard Summer School program archaeological dig teaches students the fundamentals at one of Peru’s most important sites.

Larry Bacow visited the nation’s capital this week to meet with members of Congress to discuss a range of University priorities, including the effects of federal immigration policy on faculty and students at Harvard and at universities across the nation. The visit comes on the heels of a letter Bacow sent to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan last week urging them to expedite the visa and immigration process for foreign students and researchers.

The Gazette spoke with China expert Anthony Saich, director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, about the protests and about what the future might hold for Hong Kong.

In his latest book, Sunil Amrith, the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, describes the ageless link between water and prosperity in South Asia and examines the new challenges of climate change.

Harvard scholars reflect on the history and legacy of the 1969 Stonewall demonstrations that triggered the contemporary battle for LGBT rights in America.

Harvard Kennedy School researcher and former Obama official Thomas Abt’s new book offers a concrete prescription for bringing peace to the streets.

Corporate America began embracing workplace initiatives to end harassment nearly a half century ago. So why is it still a big problem?

Far more than avocados and Modelo beer will be affected if the U.S. follows through on threats to start taxing Mexico, China, and other countries. Sustained disputes could destabilize the global economy, prompt an economic downturn, and pose national security risks.

Chris Hamblin, a Bristol, England, native and the Branca Family Head Coach for Harvard Women’s Soccer, analyzes the teams and players to watch during the world’s biggest soccer tournament.

The Gazette talks about India’s second-term prime minister, Narendra Modi, with Harvard Kennedy School fellow Ashutosh Varshney, who recently returned from observing the country’s national elections.

The Gazette speaks with members of Harvard’s Generation Merkel in advance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s commencement speech.

In advance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s arrival at Harvard as its Commencement speaker, those who know her describe her rise to global prominence.

Social scientists have long understood that a child’s environment can have long-lasting effects on their success later in life. Exactly how is less well understood. A new Harvard study points to a handful of key indicators, including exposure to high lead levels, violence, and incarceration, as key predictors of children’s later success.

A team at the Center for Population and Development Studies and the Center for Geographic Analysis has remapped a trove of health and wellness data to align it with political districts in India, to help voters in the world’s largest democracy better decide how to vote in the six-week election.

Harvard President Larry Bacow met with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego ’04 and city manager Ed Zuercher during a trip to Phoenix to discuss the partnership between Harvard and the city that began in 2017, as part of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. He also visited Houston.

Former intelligence officers, lawmakers, national security analysts, and top journalists discussed some of the ethical and moral issues in intelligence work and looked at the current challenges facing those in the field during a conference this week hosted by the Intelligence Project, a program of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

A quarter-century after genocide killed as many as a million Rwandans, the country’s women are leading its renaissance.